The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-27
THE WEEKS NEWS.
Recent Events Retold I'm Brief Para
graphs for the Weekly Sentinel.

New Boston, ONO, thinks II mas STRUCK
silver mine.
An extra session of the Indiana Legisla-
ture is rumored as likely.
The Florida Legislature is still baIloting
for a United States Senator.
Henry F. Merritt, of Illinois, has been
appointed Consul at Chemnitz.
John B. Smith, a bank president at
Louisville, died last week after prolonged
illness.
Major John F. Blaine, brother of Hon.
James G. Blaine, died at Hot Springs, Ark,
last week.
Colonel Lamont is sure that Cleveland
has never expressed himself about re-
nomination.
The vote for Senator in the Florida Legis-
lature Thursday was distributed among
thirty-two names.
Sergeant-at-arms Hennessy, of the Texas
Senate, was sentenced to two years in the
penltentiary, for forgery.
The Illinois House has passed a bill to
prohibit idiots, insane persons and inmates
of prisons from marrying.
w. H. Brown, prominent and wealthy
citizen of Little Rock, Ark, suicided with
morphine. Family trouble.
The Legislature of West Virginia has
commenced an extra session. Balloting
for Senator will begin on May 3.
In the Nova Scotia Assembly. Saturday,
the annexation to the United States reso-
luton" was lost-yea l, nays 26,
Six residents of st. Petersburg have been
sentenced to death for completely in the
plot to assassinate the Car March Is.
Three hundred storekeepers and emf
ployes were arrested in New York last
week for sweeping dust into the street.
The Kentucky Central Railroad was sold
at receivers sale Saturday to c. 2. Hunt
ington ct al. The price was ST, 5000 900.
Mr.. Benjamin Fl. Warder, of Springfield,
Ohio. will build for and present to that
city public library at a cost of S62, 600.
Hon. James G. Blaine received delega-
tons from the Irish-American and Ger
man-American Clubs in Chicago Saturday.
A commission house on South Water
street, Chicago, has received two live ALI
gators from Mississippi, to be exchanged
for cash.
The operation of the inter. state com.
nerce law has compelled the abandonment
of business at Sprague's box factory at
Swansea, n. H.
Jennie Bowman, last Thursday, was
brutality and fatally beaten by q house
breaker in a Louisville residence in which
she was employed.
1t is reported that band of Kiowa and
Comanche Indians killed W. A. Sirinson,
a ranch owner, and two of his men, in
Greer County, Texas.
The steamer City of Sidney arrived in
San Francisco Thursday with $50, 900 trade
dollars from China. The last Chinese
steamer brought 10000.
E. T. NJ. Simmons, manager of the Hotel
Del Monte, recently destroyed by fire at
Monterey, Cal, has been arrested on the
charge of burning the hotel.
The trotting stallion Ambassador @: 81
has been sold by Harrison Walker, of Upper
Sandusky, Ohio, to S. A. Browne & Co., of
Kalamazoo, Mich, for $4,000.
Wood Lopeman killed James Franklin
about eight miles from Chanute, Kas.
Lopeman's cattle had strayed into Frank
Inns pasture, and a quarrel ensued.
Joe Shelton, a lunatic confined in the
county Jail at Nicholasville, KY, killed
Sam Million, a convict, with piece of
wood. This is Skeletons third murder.
In photograph gallery at Indianapolis,
by the production of a loaded revolver, an
officer of the Secret Service secured pict-
ure of James Fox noted counterfeiter
The suicide of a citizen of st. Peters
burg was followed by the discovery that
the house was the rendezvous for the Nj
hilists and contained arms and dynamite.
William O'Brien, editor of United Ire
land, is to sail soon for Canada with an
eyicted tenant of LORD LRnsdowne to eX-
pose the latter's treatment of his farmers.
"Old Spot" the horse which General Kill
patrick rode in his famous expedition dur
ing the war, died at Deckertown, n. J., a
few days ago. He was thirty-three years
old.
The failure is announced of George
Clark, a millionaire land owner and hop
dealer of Springfield N. Y. There are
100000 in judgments standing against
him.
In the Doodle cases at Chicago. pleas of
not guilty were entered by Warden McGar-
lyle, Edward S. Mcdonald, and Commits
sioners Klehm, Cells, Oliver, Leyden and
0chs.
Jackson Walker, a negro, residing in
West Baltimore, Nd, was arrested yester-
day afternoon, charged with having muir
dered a white boy in Wilmington, Del,
last August.
1t is intimated in the United States
Treasury Department that the balance OF
the per cent. loan outstanding, about
$40, zoo, 900, will remain undisturbed until
after June 80.
The Mexican House of Deputies has
passed, by an overwhelming majority, a
constitutional amendment which would
give to President Diaz a second consecu-
tive term of Office.
The President, on the recommendation
of Mr. Thurman, has appointed Judge L. f..
Bingham, of Ohio, Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of the District of Columbia,
vice Judge Cartier, deceased.
James Russell Lowell sailed last week for
Europe on the steamer Pavonia. 1t is I'M
derstoed that he declines to be candidate
for overseer of Harvard University, for
which he has been nominated.
From the action of the Kentucky Demo-
cratic county conventions, held Saturday,
the indications are that General Buckner
will be nominated for Governor, and State
Senator Bryan tor Lieutenant Governor.
The Queen of the Sandwich Islands and
a number OF high officials have arrived at
San Francisco. They will proceed by rail
| to Washington and hope to witness Queen
| Victoria's jubilee celebration in London
next June.
John Stadler, Richville Mich farmer
who mysteriously disappeared, has turned
up on a Kentucky farm. He is afflicted
with q total lack of memory, and while a
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